The increasing demand for sustainable livestock products also demands new
considerations in animal breeding. Breeding programs are now seeking to integrate animal …

Several precision livestock farming (PLF) technologies, conceived for optimizing farming
processes, are developed to detect the physical and behavioral changes of animals …

The rise in the demand for animal products due to demographic and dietary changes has
exacerbated difficulties in addressing societal concerns related to the environment, human …

Prior livestock research provides evidence for the importance of accurate detection of pig
positions and postures for better understanding animal welfare. Position and posture …

Pork accounts for an important proportion of livestock products. For pig farming, a lot of
manpower, material resources and time are required to monitor pig health and welfare. As …

Large-scale phenotyping of animal behaviour traits is time consuming and has led to
increased demand for technologies that can automate these procedures. Automated …

Livestock production to provide food for a growing world population, with increasing demand
for meat and milk products, has led to a rapid growth in the scale of cattle and pig …

Abstract Information on the daily growth rate of pigs enables the stockman to monitor their
performance and health and to predict and control their market weight and date. Manual …

Economic pressures continue to mount on modern-day livestock farmers, forcing them to
increase herds sizes in order to be commercially viable. The natural consequence of this is …

The behaviors of livestock on farms are the primary representatives of animal welfare, health
conditions and social interactions. Measuring behavior quantitatively in an automatic …